court justice antonin scalia is under fire by some civil rights activists for comments he made during oral arguments over the future of the voting rights act. now, this is a law that makes these states with a history of discrimination have to report to the feds and get a permission slip, basically before they change their voting laws because there's a concern they'll do something that is damaging to minorities attempt to go vote. and justice scalia seemed to suggest that the federal government no longer needs to keep an eye on southern voting in this way, that folks can just bring individual lawsuits if there are cases of discrimination like they do up north. and the way he phrased it, saying what congress is doing is voting for a quote, racial entitlement, got some people very fired up. including democratic south carolina congressman jim cliburn, the third most powerful democrat in the house who slammed justice scalia saying in part, quote, i'm not surprised by anything, but that took me to a someplace i haven't been in a long time. what justice scalia said the 15 he amendment of the